In spite of the article being 5 years old, I still found it interesting and relevant.<p>The details of how the data was captured was helpful.<p>The things I found most interesting fall into 3 parts:<p>Part 1) It's heartening to see people enjoying their kids:<p>> I told my son to clear my schedule. He bashed two wooden blocks together in understanding, encouragement, and sheer admiration.<p>Go Dad! Enjoy it while you can!<p>If you have an experience like mine: as a 57yo at the time, and well aware of what was coming. When I went from daily interacting with my son, who was finally old enough to speak with as a adult, he suddenly moved away to college over a weekend and I almost never see him any more 8-(<p>I never expected the fully anticipated experience of empty-nest to affect me so strongly 8-/<p>Part 2)<p>> I care about this for two reasons.<p>> The first is a principled fuck you.<p>I had to laugh 8-) This somehow reminded me of a line in one of my favorite movies: The Live Aquatic.<p>Bill Murray's character is asked: This leopard shark is an endangered species. What would be the scientific purpose of killing it?<p>To which he replies: Revenge...<p>Part 3) The obligatory proprietary OS bashing:<p>Several times, the author states: "A device that is essentially a mouse..."<p>It should be pointed out, that a mouse is a USB class device. That is to say, it is a standard USB device that requires no proprietary driver (except for the purpose of exfiltrating data that the mouse maker has no functional need of, or other "value added" purposes)<p>Pretty much any special feature of the device can be implemented as a user space library.<p>The author is working on a Mac, the situation is even worse on windoze, where even a actual mouse will ask you to install a custom device driver.<p>This is why linux, with a broad support of standard USB class devices, is now significantly superior to windows in USB device support. For almost any typical type device, when you plug it into a linux computer, it just works. No driver install or other configuration needed.<p>Even if you need a driver to support your tablet on some version of an OS that doesn't provide support, there is a GPL waycom driver:<p><a href="https://github.com/linuxwacom/input-wacom">https://github.com/linuxwacom/input-wacom</a><p>tl;dr: linux good, windoze sux, mac getting worse...<p>In the current world, every computer company in any way associated with h/w or s/w or online activity is now also in the data borker business.<p>This is similar to the way the car dealership industry is now basically a subdivision of retail loan banking. Try buying a car with cash, versus a lease or loan. But, of course, it's not just milking the idiot herd for all it can, its "maximizing efficiency", for somebody...<p>So much for the glowing future brought to you by unbridled capitalism...<p>That's it. Try not to use Waycom, or at least not on Mac or windoze...